“The eponymous heroine of Song Chuan’s insightful and quietly heart-breaking Huan Huan (2010) is a young village woman who becomes the mistress of the local doctor; she struggles to find her place in the world despite, or because of, a near-constant bombardment of social messages (birth control regulations, labour force drives, state-controlled television news).”
—John Berra, www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

2010.China.Song Chuan.90 min. Chinese and English subtitles

A young woman named Huan Huan resolves to leave her village in Yunnan and go to the city to find work. She has been having an affair with Wang Degang, the village’s married doctor.

Huan Huan marries a man named Yue Lin. Not long after her wedding, Dr. Wang helps Huan Huan’s brother pay a 1500 RMB fine to the village family planning committee, thus clearing the way for the brother to return to the village. Huan Huan resumes her affair with Dr. Wang until one day, Yue Lin found out everything…

Awards:
Best Feature Film nominated at the 2nd China Youth Digital Film Contest (2011)
In competition at the 8th Chinese Independent Film Festival (2011)
Selected at the 6th Annual Beijing Independent Film Festival (2011)

Director Song Chuan, born in 1980, is a native of Yunnan Province, China. Since graduating in 2006 from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing, he has created dramas and documentaries for both film and television. His 2010 debut feature film Huan Huan was nominated for best feature film in the second China (Hangzhou) Youth Digital Film Contest.

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